World Animal Day has been celebrated on October 4 for many years. The World Animal Day website says it was first celebrated in 1925 in Berlin, Germany on a different date. It moved to October 4 in 1929.

This is What’s Trending Today… Hollywood honored its biggest stars of television Sunday night at the 69th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California. The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the night’s major winners. It took the prize for best drama television series.

This is What’s Trending Today… While many people were busy looking at the solar eclipse on Monday, something else happened at Harvard University in the state of Massachusetts. Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former U.S. president Barack Obama, moved i

A Texas family recently found out it owned an original Norman Rockwell masterpiece long thought to be a copy. After putting the work up for sale, the painting sold for more than five times the amount predicted.

This is What’s Trending Today. Last week, the American space agency NASA announced it was looking for a Planetary Protection Officer. Many people discussed the job on social media. The Washington Post called the job’s title one of the greatest ever concei

This is What’s Trending Today. A man in Los Angeles was arrested on Tuesday for illegally bringing Asian reptiles, including three king cobra snakes, into the United States. The snakes were hidden inside cans of potato chips.

Just days before “Gangnam Style’s” five-year YouTube anniversary, another music video finally passed its view count. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s video for “See You Again” has now been viewed more than 2.9 billion times.

This is What’s Trending Today. David Brooks writes opinion pieces for the New York Times newspaper. His pieces often deal with politics, human relationships and education. They appear in the paper’s op-ed page, across from the editorials.